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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different poster, but PP your understanding of the common lottery is wrong.  It would be so much better if it worked through #1 picks first; but it doesn't.  It takes the person with random lottery #0001 or however many there were, and taking preference groups into consideration (siblings and IB where applicable) it works through all of that #0001 person's list to match them, and then moves onto #0002.  Person #9999 pretty much has zero chance in Hades getting matched anywhere on their list of 12 unless they apply to a school that never has a waiting list.  If it went through #1 rankings first, that would be much fairer, but person #0050 who ranks Yu Ying 11th has a better chance of getting in than person #0600 who ranks Yu Ying #1.

If they figure out how to have the algorithm consider the parent's ranking of schools as well as random lottery number and preference, that would be a great improvement.[/quote]

I actually don't think that your understanding of the lottery is correct. But even in your scenario, person with a number of 50 is not getting into their 11th choice. They are getting into their 1, 2 or 3 choice. And YY would be ranked as #1 by many, many people, so it would still be a combination of great number/high ranking.[/quote]

You're mistaken, but you are welcome to point to where my version is incorrect.  There are multiple threads here about the algorithm.

Just to make it clear, the problem is that if Person #0050 ranks YY #7, and Person #0051 ranks it #1, #0050 is still getting in and will only give up that spot if they get into their #6 choice later.    But I don't think I can explain my point any better than that, so if you still feel that it's incorrect, so be it.[/quote]

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